SPEAKER | AUTHOR | TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST
In short, yesterday I learned two things: #1 You can continue on in this life after you lose the one ability that gave you identity. #2 If you plan on being successful you need o be able to communicate using a “Bridge Language”. Listen to the audio below.
Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
I’m in Rome tryin to evade projections. There’s a tendency to absorb the expectaions and/or praises of an impressionable demographic. See, there’s these boys ages 9-17 who want nothing more than to be trained by an African American, 6’5″, former college player guy from Los Angeles. It’s no diferent than what I wanted at that …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Phil Jackson intimated he may not return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season as head coach and it’s among sports’ top stories. It should be. He’s a freak as it pertains to completely dominating an entire realm. He’s gotten the greatest players ever to work with colleagues toward common objectives. He’s a battle tested …
Continue reading “WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM?”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
Ron Artest is a great example of someone whose specific skill set filled a void on a team that was already poised for championship performance. The question is, however, whether or not his role is acceptable to him long term. Is he BEING everything he knows he can be playing a supportive role? I could ask you the same question. How would you answer?
Category: Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
The strangeness of sports fanaticism went undetected but I think I caught it in time.
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Play, Today's Post
There’s a day when you go from incapable to capable. Today was the first day of the first 6ixth Man Basketball Fundamentals Clinic and this was the theme of my subconscious. I knew today wasn’t the day six athletes between the ages of 13-16 go from incapable to capable. But I wondered when that day …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
A great man named Pastor Chuck Reeve once told me his goal on Sunday mornings was to have as many quality conversations as possible, namely with church congregants. It stuck with me and last week at NBC Camp in Maui I tried to revitalize Pastor Chuck’s motto. I dealt mostly with 12-18 year-old boys and …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
